# How Clean is Your Home?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-clean-is-your-home/16359
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 22, 2000, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-clean-is-your-home/16359 "2000-04-22T13:30:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Sentinel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sentinel)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2000, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-clean-is-your-home/16359/21 "2000-04-24T02:27:00Z")
TVeblen
[13 room house?\*\* GEEZ! You live in an old mansion or what? Last place we had down here THAT big for rent was turned into a restaurant.
Or, is it like one place I lived in? A 3 bedroom house – but the biggest bedrooms were like 12 x 11 and 12 x 12 while the smallest was about the size of a walk in closet – 9 x 6.
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**CAREFUL! We don’t want to learn from this!** (Calvin and Hobbs)
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### Author:  [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2000, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-clean-is-your-home/16359/22 "2000-04-24T03:02:00Z")
Mr. Cynical, you indeed have a problem. The problem with you is that _you don’t live in my house._ How quickly can you get here?
And what are you people talking about, this “dust” on the TV screen? You mean, the picture isn’t _supposed_ to have that fuzzy-rainbow look to it?
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Cristi, Slayer of Peeps
I made my husband join a bridge club. He jumps next Tuesday.
(title & sig courtesy of UncleBeer and WallyM7!)
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2000, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-clean-is-your-home/16359/23 "2000-04-24T04:34:00Z")
Let’s just say that if I had a web-cam right now, your eyeballs would actually jump out of your skull and run screaming away from your computer. The closest association my house has to cleanliness is that rats, cockroachs, and other vermin refuse to cohabitate with me due to an inability to lower their standards to my level.
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### Author:  [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2000, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-clean-is-your-home/16359/24 "2000-04-24T15:12:00Z")
So clean and tastefully decorated that I regularly hear back from friends of friends after visiting that I “MUST be Gay”!!
I just laugh…
MjS
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The Sleeper has AWAKENED!
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### Author:  [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2000, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-clean-is-your-home/16359/25 "2000-04-24T15:23:00Z")
First of all you have to understand - our landlady is insane. Every room in the apartment is carpeted, including the kitchen.
Then we have two cats. One can’t seem to completely retract his claws and the other one throws up.
Add to this two people with a somewhat cavalier attitude towards housework and you can immagine the state of where we live. What are the odds we’ll get our security deposit back?
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What is this, some kind of freakout??
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### Author:  [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2000, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-clean-is-your-home/16359/26 "2000-04-25T05:41:00Z")
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> Originally posted by Cristi:
> \*\*…And what are you people talking about, this “dust” on the TV screen? You mean, the picture isn’t _supposed_ to have that fuzzy-rainbow look to it? \*\*
Eeeeeeek!
Don’t EVER say that! Aieeeeeee!
Here’s a helpful hint for TV Dust. Use a dryer sheet to clean the screen. Right out of the dryer, even. It’ll still have enough o’ that magic stuff on it to help reduce the amount of static that the screen generates, thereby reducing dust. From my personal experience, Bounce sheets work best. Plus, they **REALLY** pick up dust well.
It would probably take me a while to get there, Cristi. The Dream Machine pegs the needle at 120, and I’d hate to risk screwing up the cabling to get there faster 🙂
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2000, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-clean-is-your-home/16359/27 "2000-04-25T05:55:00Z")
No one is allowed in our apartment–ever. If the Department of Health were to find out about it, they would take my children away.
I used to try to clean, as best as a slob like me could, but with 3 other slobs in the house it didn’t matter.
The livingroom would be clean, I’d go to the kitchen to mop and scrub. The kitchen would look nice, but in the time it took me to clean the kitchen, the livingroom would be a total disaster.
I have given up. Thanksgiving, Christmas and before we go on summer vacation are the only times I clean the house from top to bottom. I don’t even see the mess anymore.
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### Author:  [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2000, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-clean-is-your-home/16359/28 "2000-04-24T22:50:00Z")
I think my biggest problem is that I’m a stuffer/crammer. My house might look neat and tidy to the casual observer, but…well, let’s just say one of my worst nightmares is the one where me & hubby die and other people are going through my closets. I don’t even want to think about what conclusions a psychologist could draw from that.
My fridge isn’t so much growing things as it is way, way overpacked. Our family of three uses 3 kinds of milk, real mayonaise and miracle whip, 7 (yup 7) kinds of mustard, 3 barbeque sauces, 4 salad dressings, and I’m not even going to get into the jam/jelly situation. And yes, we need them all. I mean could you imagine trying to eat a nice Weisswurst without sweet German mustard? I could use the hot German mustard, but that’s more of a bratwurst thing…
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### Author:  [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2000, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-clean-is-your-home/16359/29 "2000-04-24T23:57:00Z")
Our house isn’t nasty filthy, but it has been cluttered. This week, in preparation for a move this summer, we’ve packed up all the books & CDs (Mr. elelle’s been in the music biz, so we have a few thousand CDs).
And with all the vacated shelf space, I can put other stuff there. I can’t believe how much more space we have now! Except for 10,000 liquor boxes full of the packed stuff.
When am I gonna read these books again? Why do I hold on to em?
The refrigerator is another matter. I don’t even want to deal with it. But, yeah, tater, there’s a hell of a lot of questionable condiments taking up space…
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The ride is short and the thrills are cheap- Men and rollercoasters. - - -Courtesy of Wally, that Signifying Guy.
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2000, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-clean-is-your-home/16359/30 "2000-04-25T12:17:00Z")
I have a toddler. I like to introduce him as, "You’ve met my son, Sticky Boy ".
Any one with kids understands the path of destruction these pint size domestic terrors can cut across any room. Dust bunnies hide in constant fear around here.
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